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AMENDMENT    OF  MR,  SMITH,  OF    NORTH  CARO- 

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1         That   the    President   be  authorized  to  call  upon  the 

%i  .several  States  for  their  respective  quotas  of  a  force,  in 

3  the    aggregate  not  exceeding   three  hundred   thousand 

4  men,  in  addition    to  those  already  in  the  field,  to    serve 

5  for  three   years  or   the  war,  whereof  so  many  shall    be 

6  placed  in  the  regiments  of  the  States   from  which  they 

7  are  taken,  as  are  necessary  to  fill  such  regiments  to  the 

8  full  number  prescribed  by  the  act  of  April  10,  1862,  and 

9  the  residue  of  the  quota  shall  be  received  in  bodies  or- 

1 0  ganized  by  authority  of  the  States  :    Provided,  however, 

11  That  the  quota  to  be  furnished  by  each  State  shall  not 

12  exceed  the  difference  between  the  whole  number  of  per- 

13  sons  therein,  between  the   ages  of  eighteen  and  forty- 

14  hve   years,  liable,  under   the   laws   thereof,  to   military 

15  service,  and  not  exempt,  to    be    estimated  according  to 

16  the  returns  of  the  last  census,  and   the  number   which 


17  such  Slate  has   already  furnished    by  volunteering,  con- 

18  scription.  or  otherwise,  to  the  Confederate  Government 

19  for  the  term  of  three  years  or*the  war. 


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